[SSSD] RFC: sudo cache behaviour

Pavel Březina pbrezina at redhat.com
Fri Dec 2 07:57:11 UTC 2011


Dne 1.12.2011 16:41, Stephen Gallagher napsal(a):
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:27 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As we work on the Sudo integration with Pavel, I'm thinking about how
>> should we handle our cache.
>>
>> On one hand, I think our cache should be complete and possibly up to date
>> to allow seamless offline operation. In the first prototype we have now,
>> we just download the whole tree during every request. That's not going
>> to scale, obviously. There can be many rules and downloading them all can
>> get expensive.
>>
>> I think we can use the following mechanism:
>>
>> 1) the backend would schedule a periodic task to download all rules,
>> much like the current enumeration task. There may be an option to
>> fine tune how often should the task start.
>> 2) when a request comes, we would update the cache that affects the
>> user only(*). We keep an in-memory timeout per user so that subsequent
>> requests from the same user are handled fast.
>>
>> Does that sound OK?
>>
>> * even native sudo only searches for
>>    "(|(sudoUser=ALL)(sudoUser=username)(sudoUser=%group1)(sudoUser=%group2))"
>>    so we can limit the online update the same way
>
> It's interesting that native SUDO only supports lookups that way. It
> doesn't take into account the possibility of rules that affect the user
> as a member of a netgroup applying to a rule. Granted, most netgroups
> are used as a mechanism for restricting the *host* rather than users,
> but it's still a possibility that we should consider.
>
> Unless we're going to make the assumption that it's sufficient to trust
> netgroup membership to the enumeration task instead.

Actually sudo does consider netgroups aswell. It performs two LDAP 
lookups. The first is against matching username, groups and ALL keyword. 
The second one is for the netgroups.

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